DHAKA: Staffs of Bangladesh Airlines besieged the Biman Flight Catering Center (BFCC) to press their 14-point demand including introducing organization organogram (Maps and Directions), uniform bonus.

Earlier, they also besieged the office of chairman Jamal Uddin Ahmed and managing director Mosaddek Ahmed on the same demand. 

As per the schedule of their movement, agitating staffs gathered around BFCC office from 10:00am at Hazarat Shahjalal International Airport area and at one stage hundreds of them besieged the office.

Biman Shramik League President Mashiur Rahman announced the programme at airlines’ headquarters in Balaka Bhaban in the city on June 25.

Their other demands include cent percent medical allowance, making the job permanent for casuals, increasing food allowance and providing facilities to Biman Flight Catering Centre (BFCC) employees as equal as the employees of the national carrier.   

They also demanded dearness allowance from the government declared date.

In January in 2013, Biman employees staged strong movement demanding the introduction of uniform allowance and increasing food allowance. At one stage, they demanded stepping down of Biman chairman Jamal Uddin.

The then civil aviation minister Faruk Khan agreed to meet the demands. 

Later, the demands were not passed in the meeting of Biman’s board of directors. Biman sources said that some of directors agreed to meet the demand but its chairmen opposed.

BDST: 1155 HRS, JULY 22, 2014